# | Title | Author | Read | Own* | Notes |
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1 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
2 | The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien | Yes | Yes | I've read this several times. Not light reading. If you are really into the books I recommend some of the supplimentary material like the Silmarilion. The movies were fun too. |
3 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | |||
4 | The Harry Potter Series | JK Rowling | Yes | Yes | Just finished reading these. I'm in the process of finishing the movies now. Very enjoyable. Not a "challenging" read, but fun. |
5 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Yes | I read this in High School English. | |
6 | The Bible | Some | Yes | I had plans at one point to read this, the Koran, the Book of Mormon. Didn't make it very far though. | |
7 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | |||
8 | Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | Yes | Yes | Big Brother is watching you... |
9 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | |||
10 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
11 | Little Women | Louisa M Alcott | Yes | Yes | High School English |
12 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | Yes | I've picked it up once or twice and could never really get going. | |
13 | Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | |||
14 | Complete Works of Shakespeare | Some | Yes | I can't say I've read thecompleteworks.... | |
15 | Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | |||
16 | The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien | Yes | Yes | I read this as part of the LoTR above. The animated movie was fun too. I'm also looking forward to the live action movie coming out. |
17 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | |||
18 | Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger | |||
19 | The Time Traveller's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | |||
20 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
21 | Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | |||
22 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | Yes | High School English | |
23 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
24 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | |||
25 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Yes | Yes | I've read all five books in the trilogy AND played the text adventure. The movie was... okay. |
26 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | |||
27 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |||
28 | Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Some | Yes | I read enough to write my book report (which I got a dismal grade on as I remember) |
29 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Yes | Yes | If you want to read this pick up a copy of The Annotated Alice edited by Martin Gardner. |
30 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Yes | Disney Trivia, if you ride the Pooh ride in Disney World and look over your shoulder as you go around the first turn, through the first door there is a picture of Mr Toad giving a deed to Mr Owl from Pooh. This is a tribute to the fact that the Pooh ride was built over the old Mr Toad's Wild Ride. | |
31 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | |||
32 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
33 | Chronicles of Narnia | CS Lewis | Yes | Yes | |
34 | Emma | Jane Austen | |||
35 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |||
36 | The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe | CS Lewis | Yes | Yes | Not sure why this is seperate from the entire Chronicles at 33. The movie was good enough. |
37 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |||
38 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis De Bernieres | |||
39 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | Yes | Yes | The book was amazing and the movie was a visual feast. |
40 | Winnie the Pooh | AA Milne | |||
41 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Yes | Yes | Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad |
42 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Yes | Yes | |
43 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |||
44 | A Prayer for Owen Meaney | John Irving | |||
45 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | |||
46 | Anne of Green Gables | LM Montgomery | |||
47 | Far From The Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | |||
48 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | |||
49 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Yes | Yes | High School English. Creeeepy. |
50 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | |||
51 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |||
52 | Dune | Frank Herbert | |||
53 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | |||
54 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | |||
55 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | |||
56 | The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | |||
57 | A Tale Of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | |||
58 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | |||
59 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon | |||
60 | Love In The Time Of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |||
61 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Yes | Yes | Tell me about the rabbits George |
62 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | |||
63 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | |||
64 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | |||
65 | Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | Yes | Yes | The movie was okay as well. |
66 | On The Road | Jack Kerouac | |||
67 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | |||
68 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding | |||
69 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | |||
70 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | A whale of tale I've heard... (sorry... I had to...) | ||
71 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
72 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Movie | ||
73 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Movie | ||
74 | Notes From A Small Island | Bill Bryson | |||
75 | Ulysses | James Joyce | |||
76 | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | |||
77 | Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | |||
78 | Germinal | Emile Zola | |||
79 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | |||
80 | Possession | AS Byatt | |||
81 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Yes | ||
82 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | |||
83 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | |||
84 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | |||
85 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | |||
86 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | |||
87 | Charlotte's Web | EB White | Yes | Yes | |
88 | The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Mitch Albom | |||
89 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Some | ||
90 | The Faraway Tree Collection | Enid Blyton | |||
91 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | |||
92 | The Little Prince | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | I only remember the cartoon series vaguely... from the 80's I think | ||
93 | The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | |||
94 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | Another book I've picked up a couple times and never really gotten into. | ||
95 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | |||
96 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | |||
97 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | Yes | Yes | The movie was good but as I remember it was nothing like the book. |
98 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Yes | Yes | College English. I saw one of the many movies and it was okay. |
99 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | Yes | Yes | The new movie good and dark. The old movie good and fluffy. Not really sure which was "better". |
100 | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | Play | I've seen the play... does that count? |
[*] I'm not 100% on the "Own" column. I'll update that as time goes by.